Dennis Mersereau

As part of an annual tradition where everyone's latent trust issues with each other erupt in either laughter or the rage of a thousand suns, the entire country is eagerly waiting to see what stupid crap their local weathermen have in store for this year's April Fools' Day.

Over the past few weeks, I've heard a few stories about Google or Twitter employees letting it …
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Most of the pranks won't be outlandish — a surprise graphic thrown into the on-camera presentation, an outlandish forecast, some sort of a green screen prank, false reports of snow/hail/whatever somewhere — but it'll be just enough to make everyone suspicious of what they hear for the next 13 hours.

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The thing that sucks is that there is a good chance for severe weather today in the southern and central Plains, with large hail and a few tornadoes possible across parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. The risk for "very large hail" (larger than golf balls) exists in north-central Texas around Abilene and Wichita Falls.